From: Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 04:27:11 -0400 (EDT)
> So the more precise question is: should translators quit when the last
> reference to them is gone?
It is up to the translator to decide when it is safe and desireable to shut
down when there
> A slightly different question: if a stat() call is issued by a program
> on, for example, a /dev entry, an open() is issued to the translator to
> get a port, then the stat() magic and then a close() to free the port.
> What does the stat() actually do, and does it do an open() with O_NORW?
> Or
> So the more precise question is: should translators quit when the last
> reference to them is gone?
It is up to the translator to decide when it is safe and desireable to shut
down when there are no users. The general plan is to do this after a
timeout, but the implementations are not entirely
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 07:48:15AM +0530, Pankaj Kaushal wrote:
> Erik Verbruggen wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > A short question: when do translators actually quit?
> well a translator with -c will stay across reboots
> and -a will not stand reboots
>
> a -a translator will be started with dev
Erik Verbruggen wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> A short question: when do translators actually quit?
well a translator with -c will stay across reboots
and -a will not stand reboots
a -a translator will be started with device access
and will die on reboot.
a active translator is a running translator
-
Hello,
A short question: when do translators actually quit? When you do a
"ls -alni /dev" a translator for every device in /dev is started and
are only stopped by a TERM signal, or a reboot. Some of them will never
be used actually used to do "real" device access.
Erik.
